Raphael Warnock and his Democratic Party allies have sued the state after Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger prohibited early voting for Warnock’s Senate runoff against Herschel Walker from beginning on Saturday, Nov. 26.
Halting early voting that day—the Secretary of State’s office had said the day falls too close to Thanksgiving and violates state law—would reduce the number of early voting days from six to five for the Dec. 6 runoff.
The plaintiffs asked the court to enjoin Raffensperger from telling counties they couldn’t begin early voting that day.
They said in the lawsuit, filed Monday in Fulton County Superior Court, that the law requires advance voting to begin no later than Monday, Nov. 28 and that it start “as soon as possible.” And they noted that both Raffensperger and his deputy, Gabriel Sterling, had stated publicly on Nov. 9—the day after Election Day, when Raffensperger was reelected to a second four-year term—that they anticipated voting would begin in counties that chose to do so on Nov. 26….